"Fear, a sense of denial, depression and insecurity are the prominent features of Donne's divine poetry." Discuss.

Donne's divine poetry are ultimately poems of faith despite expressing "fear, a sense of denial, depression and insecurity." His strong faith in God has led to his fear of rejection and isolation from God. Fear, a sense of denial, depression and insecurity are prevalent in most divine poems when Donne sin but as Donne is plagued with sickness, he seems to embrace death and sees it as a blessing and paradise.

In "As due by many titles I resigne", Donne expresses great "fear, a sense of denial, depression and insecurity" in God. He feels helpless, despair and depress when God refuses to help. ("Oh I shall soone despaire, when I doe see / That thou lov'st mankind well, yet wilt' not chuse me") Donne feels a sense of denial from God when He refuses to "rise and for thine owne worke fight". He is fearful when Satan, who hates him, refuses to let him go. Donne has sinned by letting the "devill usurpe in mee." However, when Satan refuses to "lose mee", Donne continues to fall even deeper...